'I want you to come to my party'

Hello, everyone,

1) "I want you to come to my party."

For this sentence natives say the verb - "want" belongs to "catenative verbs" and the "you" as the semantic (understood) subject of the infinitival clause has been raised to become the object/complement of the main clause. Then am I plausible to say that the verb - "want" is a montransitive verb, so it needs inevitably a 'to infinitive clause' as an alternative in order to take a direct object?

2) "He taught me to drive."

If my assumption for the sentence 1) is plausible, am I OK to say the same parsing way for 1) applies to this sentence 2)? Can only "noun phrases" can be direct objects and "to infinitive clause" is not allowed here in 2) with "catenative verb construction"? At moment, I'm not sure if "me" could be an indirect object and "to drive" a direct object.

Would hope to hear your valuable opinions.

3/3/235:34 AM

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